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mdokaba1:
It was a very stressful week for me as it involved lots of travels and all. So its a Saturday and I was paid for a project I did for the month past.

Going by my tired nature, I knew deep down me that there was no way I could have made it to church the next day and I was hell bent on paying my tithe because of the inherent blessings therein and the last thing on my mind would be to give it to my nebor to pay it for me. (The guy broke and besides I didn't want him to start calculating my take-home (Na sharp man). And I knew deep down that if I keep the money till the next time I would be in church, I was sure I would spend it. (God have mercy on me sha)

So I decided even before getting home to package my tithe and while in the market on a shopping spree I package my tithe and dropped it in the plate of an old beggar. (A mulsim beggar precisely)

Instantly, I saw 50 shades of shocks on her face as she looked at me for a few seconds and I could read her facials more like "For this Buharia?" Lols. And before I disappeared into the crowd, I could see/read her lips mutter prayers pointing towards me. And deep down, I felt blessed and fulfilled.

But was I wrong to have given my 10percent to a beggar instead of to the alter?

Opinions please.

iliyande:
The devil's strategy in deceiving believers is to make them doubt the faithfulness of God in answering prayer. Satan would have us believe God has shut His ears to our cry and left us to work things out for ourselves.

A Few Encouragements and Warnings Concerning Prayer.
When You Are Down, and Satan Whispers In Your Ear That God Has Forgotten You, Stop His Mouth With This:

"Devil - it is not God who has forgotten, but it is me. I've forgotten all His past blessings, or else I could not now be questioning his faithfulness."

Here are some good reasons God may not be answering your prayers.

Unforgiveness

Maybe God isn’t answering your prayer or prayers because you hold a grudge against someone who has hurt you. If you’ve not forgiven them, then you have an obstacle between you and God. Jesus once addressed this situation when He said “whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (Mark 11:25), so “if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matt 6:15).

Christ will not even communicate with a wrangling, jangling, unforgiving person. God's law of prayer is clear on this matter, "Lift up pure hands without wrath or doubting" (1 Timothy 2:. By not forgiving the sins committed against us, we make it impossible for God to forgive and bless us. He instructed us to pray, "Forgive us, as we forgive others."

Sinfulness

The psalmist nails this down nicely by writing,“If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened” (Psalm 66:18), because “If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination” (Prov 28:9). Even further, Isaiah wrote, “When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood” (Isaiah 1:15). This last verse was written to Judah, however the same principle applies that if we are living in sin, God will not answer our prayers.

Wrong Request

James tells us that “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions” (James 4:3). I heard one man say that he was playing the lottery and praying to God to make him the winner so that he could help the poor in his community, but does God really need to use someone’s gambling winnings to help the poor? Doesn’t God own the cattle on a thousand hills (Psalm 50:1)? Why would he answer a prayer for someone trying to do something that He can do Himself? God may not answer our prayers if our heart’s not right with Him and we’re asking for the wrong reasons. God will not give us something that will hurt us.
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The devil's final strategy in deceiving believers is to make them doubt the faithfulness of God in answering prayer. Satan would have us believe God has shut His ears to our cry and left us to work things out for ourselves.

I believe the greatest tragedy in the church of Jesus Christ today is that so few now believe in the power and effectiveness of prayer. Without meaning to blaspheme, multitudes of God's people can now be heard complaining, "I pray, but I get no answers. I've prayed so long, so hard, without any results. All I want is to see a little evidence of God changing things. Things go on as usual - nothing happens. How long must I wait?" They no longer visit the secret closet because they are convinced that their petitions, born in prayer, are somewhere miscarried at the throne. Others are convinced that only Daniel, David, and Elijah types can get their prayers through to God.

Let us be careful not to charge God, as did Job, with being slothful; and unconcerned about our needs and petitions. Job complained, "I cry unto thee and thou dost not hear me; I stand up, and though regardest me not" (Job 30:20).

His vision of God's faithfulness was clouded by his present difficulties, and he ended up accusing God of forgetting him. God rebuked him soundly for it.

Asking Not According to God's Will.

We are not at liberty to pray at random for whatever our selfish minds conceive. We are not permitted to come into his presence and vent our silly notions and mindless ramblings. If God signed all our petitions without discretion, He would end up giving His glory away.

There is a law of prayer! It is a law meant to weed out beggarly, self-centered prayers - while, at the same time, making it possible for honest seekers to ask in confidence. In other words, we can pray for whatsoever we will, as long as it is his will.

"If we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us" (1 John 5:14).

The disciples were not praying according to God's will when they prayed with vindictiveness and revenge. They petitioned God thusly, "Shall we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" Jesus answered, "You do not know

Pidgin2:
Na so na but na quadruplet i dey find so bere ise

Pidgin2:
Oya I dey wait na

Pidgin2:
Like your father rides your mother?

Pidgin2:
Your fatger squeezed your mother real hard to beget you, is it bad to squeeze?

FriendNG:
Farmers are reach while the buyers are poor. If truely he is interested let him buy equipments for large farming like Thailand.

FriendNG:
Those you tag unity beggars are the ones who dictate to your grand generation, still dictating to you and shall shall dictate to your future generation.

You shall forever be slaves to the unity beggars.

FriendNG:
Ofcourse it is the vegetable till he died than terrorist eastern Almajiri

madridguy:
You've been there twice two with nothing to show for it. You can continue your chest beating as usual.

FriendNG:
Ofcourse I still stand with Sai baba. I am just telling him to go because he is weak.

I can feed all your 5 terrorist family. The more dollar rise the more I earned. Get dat into ur skull eastern Almajiri

madridguy:
You can only wail from now till 2023 APC is far better than PDP. They're the one exposing themselves unlike the satanic party. It took your hero decades to attend to Sanusi's letter, Oduah's case to mention few.

FriendNG:
5% or 5 terrorist.

Pidgin2:
So people still patronise PMT? Smh

madridguy:
Stop spamming my mention please.

FriendNG:
Why will he do so? You guys forget about that when your child was the President. So you cannot force a man you hate and never voted for 2 submit 2ur demands.

Channel that to national assembly.

Tolexander:
Is this a pre python dance video?

ishowdotgmail:
Na I.gbo woman
That region go thick die like sambisa

Pidgin2:
Afonjaconhead come and sell toilet wash, I want u to sell in go slow, I will pay u